Chicago World Columbia Exposition: A Clash of Visions

[Jochen Stremmel]

One of the best books about Sullivan is missing from the wiki entry: John
Szarkowski, The Idea of LS, 1956, 1984, 2000. And I can recommend his
Kindergarten Chats.

Am Fr., 12. Okt. 2018 um 18:44 Uhr schrieb David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com
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> https://www.archdaily.com/873081/ad-classics-worlds-columbian-exposition-daniel-burnham-and-frederick-law-olmsted
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> Daniel Burnham, a noted Chicago architect, was chosen to serve as the
> project’s director. At his disposal were 686 acres of land along the city’s
> southern lakefront, a vast swathe of land which he developed with the help
> of famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. A team of architects
> from Chicago, New York, Boston, and Kansas City was gathered to produce the
> Fair’s individual buildings. Their individual efforts were united by a
> stylistic mandate: rather than the metal-and-glass pavilions that had
> characterized World’s Fairs since the Crystal Palace, this new exhibition
> would take on the appearance of a real and permanent “dream city” realized
> in the Beaux-Arts style.
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Sullivan
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> In 1890 Sullivan was one of the ten U.S. architects, five from the east and
> five from the west, chosen to build a major structure for the "White City",
> the World's Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893. Sullivan's
> massive Transportation Building and huge arched "Golden Door" stood out as
> the only building not of the current style, Beaux-Arts, and the only
> multicolored facade in the entire White City. Sullivan and fair director
> Daniel Burnham were vocal about their displeasure with each other. Sullivan
> later claimed (1922) that the fair set the course of American architecture
> back "for half a century from its date, if not longer." His was the only
> building to receive extensive recognition outside America, receiving three
> medals from the Union Centrale des Arts Decoratifs the following year.
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